Q: How Do You Verify a Gmail Account
Q: How Do You Verify a Gmail Account? A: If you mean how does one verify that a gmail account belongs to who it claims… no method is available that is reasonably accurate. There are options to vet ID. If the sender has been assigned a class 3 S/MIME certificate, a...
Q: Is It Possible For a Virus To Wipe Out All the Information on the Internet
Q: Is It Possible For a Virus To Wipe Out All the Information on the Internet? A: This is very much like asking is it possible for a virus to wipe out all of humanity on the planet. Even Ebola doesn’t have a 100% kill rate. In the case of a computer virus, the virus...
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Use Your Voice, Communicate With Your Representatives
Use Your Voice, Communicate With Your Representatives As a people, many of us are outraged, perhaps horrified, at recent actions and the direction taken by our elected (and a few who are not elected) officials. There are others who are outraged that we are outraged....
More Toddlers Appear Alone in Court for Deportation Under Family Separation
More toddlers appear alone in court for deportation under family separation My older readers may remember the letter written by Martin Niemoller: When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social...
Mission Upgrade
From the first posting to all of my website blogs and social media, I have focused solely on IT, and primarily on IT security and privacy. I have blocked all friend/member comments and postings that have not had a similar focus. This is because, from my perspective,...
IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED: Critical Vulnerability in Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, and TP-Link Devices
IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED: CRITICAL VULNERABILITY IN LINKSYS, MIKROTIK, NETGEAR, QNAP, AND TP-LINK DEVICES When the Department of Homeland Security makes a public cybersecurity announcement, we should all wake up, listen, and pay heed. This is one of those times....
Knowledge Is Power: Oath: AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon Privacy Agreement
Knowledge Is Power: Oath: AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon Privacy Agreement Thanks in part to the recent Facebook role in Russian-financed election meddling, and to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) going into full effect in a week, websites and organizations are...
Practical Paranoia iOS 11 Update: Chapters 4, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21
Practical Paranoia iOS 11 Update: Chapters 4, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21 Practical Paranoia iOS 11 Security Essentials version 2 has just been published. All of the changes since version 1.0.1 are included in the attached pdf. Changes are from chapters on Passwords, Lost...
Why Are You Still Using Email?
Why Are You Still Using Email? Over the past 30 days, more than 20,000,000–that's right, 20 MILLION–email accounts have been hacked. Only around 80% of email providers support TLS. TLS is what allows your email be sent encrypted, received encrypted. Even if the email...
TAKE ACTION NOW: PGP, GPG, S/MIME Broken
TAKE ACTION NOW: PGP, GPG, S/MIME Broken As reported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) this morning <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/attention-pgp-users-new-vulnerabilities-require-you-take-action-now>, a group of security researchers found a set...
Practical Paranoia macOS 10.13 Update: Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16
Practical Paranoia macOS 10.13 Update: Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16 Practical Paranoia macOS 10.13 Security Essentials has just been updated with many additions. So many, we have combined them into a single update for chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16. Revisions include: Chapter...
It’s Time To Upgrade Your Email Security
It's Time To Upgrade Your Email Security Your communications through email have become one of the most highly prized targets of criminal hackers. Your email contains literal keys to your kingdom: Security codes, passwords, email addresses, social security,...
Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border Are Unconstitutional
Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border Are Unconstitutional As reported in the Electronic Frontier Foundation May 9, 2018 article, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled today that forensic searches of electronic devices...
New Certification for MintzIT: Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops
We at MintzIT believe the path to serving you best, includes continuous self-improvement. This is our latest certification. We are the first, and currently only IT consultancy in New Mexico to have successfully passed this certificate.